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With almost all seats counted, Labour has won 410 constituencies – 63.7 per cent of the seats available – with a vote share of just 33.9 per cent.

The 29.9 point gap between the popular vote and seat share makes this the most skewed result ever, far outpacing the previous 22 point gap recorded in 2001 under Tony Blair.

Labour secured just over 700,000 more votes than Mr Corbyn in 2019, one percentage point more, but managed to pick up more than 200 additional seats.

Posted By: paulg on July 5th 2024 at 10:56:24

Message Thread

A staggering stat re vote percentages (General Chat) - JoeyDeacon, Jul 5, 09:29:41
- Oh no! LDs got 12% of the vote and 11% of the seats. The horror! (General Chat) - CWC, Jul 5, 11:36:09
  - Ed Davey is King Of Wessex (General Chat) - watfordcanary, Jul 5, 13:31:57
  - TBF the skew is historical and noteworthy... (General Chat) - usacanary, Jul 5, 13:11:37
- Lib Dems played a blinder - tactical master class (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jul 5, 10:15:22
  - Yep, without tactical voting Labour probably gets 38-40% (General Chat) - jamesward, Jul 5, 10:25:08
    - Good to see people voting smarter (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jul 5, 10:37:56
- This is a very valid point re vote shares (General Chat) - jamesward, Jul 5, 10:04:01
  - I like Dan Hodges (n/m) (General Chat) - JoeyDeacon, Jul 5, 10:34:38
- Lib Dems 13% Reform 15% according to BBC (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Jul 5, 10:03:05
  - ... (General Chat) - paulg, Jul 5, 10:56:24
    - This really is what you lot are going to go on about from now on, isn't it? (General Chat) - Bertie Russell, Jul 5, 10:57:52
      - no, it's not (General Chat) - paulg, Jul 5, 10:59:46
        
        good. (n/m) (General Chat) - Bertie Russell, Jul 5, 11:01:50
  - details details. Joey gets his facts from GBNews, where facts are different (n/m) (General Chat) - Bertie Russell, Jul 5, 10:28:11
    - Never watched GB News in my life old son (n/m) (General Chat) - JoeyDeacon, Jul 5, 10:35:34
      - Out of interest, where did you get your made up vote share numbers from then? (n/m) (General Chat) - Bertie Russell, Jul 5, 10:52:23
- Not really that staggering, and doesn't establish a precedent. (General Chat) - phelans tash, Jul 5, 09:49:24
- ............... (General Chat) - Bertie Russell, Jul 5, 09:44:22
  - it's a crappy system that sadly neither of the two major parties will change (General Chat) - phrankin, Jul 5, 10:10:32
    - A long time ago, but we did actually have a referendum on this 13 years ago (General Chat) - Bertie Russell, Jul 5, 11:04:18
      - That was for another crap system Alternative Vote (General Chat) - phrankin, Jul 5, 19:41:11
    - Im relieved this wasn't a hung Parliament. Paying terrorists to stay in power (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Jul 5, 10:12:45

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